Extension Vegetable & Fruit Program Open House

Tuesday, August 21     4:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Carvel Research and Education Center
16483 County Seat Hwy
Georgetown, DE 19947

Come see and hear about many of the UD Extension Vegetable and Fruit Program’s field research projects from the 2012 season.

Watermelons: pollination, potassium fertilization, stress mitigation, variety trial and more…

Onions: overwintering and spring transplanted onion production

Lima Beans: tillage practices, re-growth production, breeding for stress tolerance and disease resistance

Fruit: fall strawberry and blackberry production

Lettuce: spring variety trial results and tour of fall varieties

Sweet Corn: fresh market variety trial results, processing corn population and tillage practice studies

Dinner featuring local produce will be served.

Please pre-register by contacting Karen Adams at 302-856-2585 ext. 540 or adams@udel.edu